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[Timo-Breumelhof]

I would like to add a "general forum link" to the template in the latest posts template. So a link to the forums page

Describe the solution you'd like

Add

[FORUMSPAGENAME] : renders the name of the page with the forums module

and

[FORUMSPAGEURL]: renders the url of the page with the forums module

Describe alternatives you've considered

None

[WillStrohl]

This sounds like a good enhancement to try and get into 8.0. What do you both think?

CC: @Timo-Breumelhof @johnhenley

[johnhenley]

Well...there is a wrinkle of course. If you have multiple instances of the forums module installed on different pages in your portal, you can combine the new posts in the what's new module ...

SO.....putting the requested [FORUMURL] link into the footer section is only valid if you have only one forums instance.

[WillStrohl]

Is the token currently getting replaced without context? If not, shouldn't the relevant CBO(s)/moduel(s) already have the correct URL for the [FORUMURL] at the time of replacement?

[Timo-Breumelhof]

@johnhenley Hmm, right. And we don't have a "Get threads from Forum x" in the module settings. Maybe we should park this for now, I'll hard code a link for now?

[johnhenley]

Is the token currently getting replaced without context? If not, shouldn't the relevant CBO(s)/moduel(s) already have the correct URL for the [FORUMURL] at the time of replacement?

@WillStrohl the [FORUMURL] token is replaced in the details template as each topic/post is handled. @Timo-Breumelhof is asking for a [FORUMSPAGEURL] token in the footer. Because you can pull from multiple instances of the forums module into a single "latest posts" module, there is no absolute context, so there could be multiple page links.

[johnhenley]

@johnhenley Hmm, right. And we don't have a "Get threads from Forum x" in the module settings.

@Timo-Breumelhof The "get threads from forum x" is in the checkbox/treeview above the template text boxes.

If you have multiple instances of the forum module it shows all of them and you can show a consolidated list of latest topics. This is actually a "feature" IMO since you could have a forums module for general Q&A and different ones for some social groups, and you want to mix them and show as "latest activity". In that scenario, having a single link -- which page would you link to? So your conclusion to hard code it is probably better. One other solution would be to have a setting that chooses one instance as the "main" one and base the link off of that.

[WillStrohl]

This sounds too complicated to get into 8.0. Do either of you disagree?

[Timo-Breumelhof]

Agreed. Maybe this could be a solution later? [FORUMSPAGEURL:0]